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 enlarge | Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: The Null Corporation
Category: Music
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 993
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 26
UPC: 766929908628
EAN: 0766929908628
ASIN: B0015FQZ94
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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An exploratory audioscape May 12, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After twenty years on the scene, the artist wants to come out with something experimental. For most bands this is a signal that they're out of ideas and are about to collapse into radio nostalgia on way-back-weekends.
Not Trent Reznor. The Ghosts are truly something very new on a long-known but previously underdeveloped foundation. Consider "A Warm Place" off Downward Spiral or the opening to "Something I could never have" off Pretty Hate Machine. These were reminders that beneath (and even coexisting with) the screams and mechanistic vicissitudes that define industrial music, Trent Reznor is a consummate musician.
"Ghosts" is fully a harmonic successor to the atmospheric movements on the very underappreciated "The Fragile". Consider the 1999 album's "La Mer" or "Pilgrimage" as opposed to "Where is Everybody?" or "The Wretched". Not to say that NIN isn't atmospheric, but rather that there are definitely tracks with an intentional message as opposed to tracks that are more meant for the listener to get lost in. Ghosts is clearly the latter.
This is not an album you'll "get" in one sitting. It would fail miserably if it were so simplistic. Let it grow on you as you meditate through it.
 instrumental NIN May 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To ask me to review anything by NIN is really no fair due to the fact that they are my favorite band. I think that if Trent and the band released an entire album full of polka music I would love it. Anyway as far as the album is concerned if you are a big fan of NIN you will love it. Trent never fails to disappoint me no matter what he does. One minute he is singing with all his soul and you are pinned to the back wall of the room from the sonic force of the pounding music, and the next minute you are relaxing on a beach somewhere from a beautifully arrainged instrumental piece. This album as all music that will both pump you up and mellow you out. Check it out for a great listen and you will not be disappointed
If you like Dark Soundtrack music! May 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love soundtrack music and this album is begging for a film to be a score to! NIN is cool, I like most of their music but confess to favoring the earlier material. This is a step in a different more early Pink Floyd way and i applaud it! One word to sum it up; BITCHIN'!
Trent Reznor raises the bar once again May 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes ladies and gents hes done it again, trying something new and succeeding in bringing different atmospheres of music. There are no vocals to warn anyone who has the impression there are, instead its more like "La Mere" from The Fragile album (minus the french chick singing). Some tracks are soft, some with climaxes then goes back to soft. A mixed blend of acoustic guitar, piano, drums, and other intruments creating more of the sounds that Trent made. The best way to look at each track is by keeping an open mind and listening to each one with some time in between each one. If you listen to both CDs from beginning to end I think you miss allot of what Reznor is trying to present to you. Bottom line, I think its great but everyone has a different opinion.
A pleasent surprise from left field May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We were all suprised when trent one day put up this album on his site to sample and have a series formats to recieve it. I know alot of people are more into the aggressive trent, but this is a masterpiece. What he accomplishes with simple instrumentals goes far and beyond what many bands are able to convey with words. The music speaks for itself and leaves you to feel the message that is trying to be expressed with each track. Totally a must have for any nin fan. Great music to relax to and be a little introspective. Listen to the samples, see if you like it. I'm sure you would.
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